What can and what cannot be inferred from pairwise sequence comparisons?

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-21

  Baake, Ellen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Additive distances; Identifiability; Markov processes on trees; Phylogenetic reconstruction; Rate heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0032442018     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-5564(98)10044-5     Document Type: Article

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